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Music history - 2005

Choir boy - 1648!
Sing the solo first verse of "Once in Royal Davidís City"
Trained in piano, but changed to guitar and auto harp - 1960
Started solo performing voice and guitar at folk clubs - 1965
Joined Bulmershe Folk Choir - 1973
Wrote "the Donkey Carol" - 1974
Bulmershe Folk Choir won the mixed voice class at Cork Festival, Ireland - 1974
Qualified as a Mathematics Teacher - 1974
Competed at Cork Music Festival in mixed voice class, won first prize - 1974
Joined the Reading Phoenix Choir - 1975
Competed in many festivals including Llangollen Eistedford and Newcastle
Climbed up to Dignus Bran and sang some songs - the legend
Started songwriting in earnest - 1982
Joined professional organisations - MU, PRS, MCPS, ISA, BACS [BASCA] - 1984
Started Dragonar Music - 1984
Special guitar - the Dragonar - made by luthier David Bourne - 1985
Released first album on tape - Dragonar [Trad] - 1985
The Donkey Carol played on LBC by Lawrence Spicer, prime time 1985
Being in the right place at the right time
Released a vinyl single - Dark Star at Sunset - 1986
Resident singer at Chiswick Folk Club - 1986
Released vinyl album - Reflected in a Mirror - 1987
Performed at Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival - 1987
Perform song - For Spain and Her Alone - on Radio 2
at prime time the Derek Jameson Show - 1988
Working as a mathematics and guitar tutor - 1989
Released vinyl album - Dragon’s Fire - 1989
Give tutorials to fast learner children at NAGC - 1993
Read for Anne Rice at her book launch “Tale of the Body Thief” in London - 1993
Released CD album - Alone With You - 1994
Released EPCD - The Bright Star - 1996
Web page set up - 1998
International Who’s Who in Music ; Popular Music - 1998/99
Gave Songwriter masterclass - SEWA 1999
Released CD album - You Touched my Heart - 1999
Performed songs on Backstage, BBC TV - 1999
Joined Glenhart Productions as Director of Music - 2000
Gave Songwriter masterclass - SEWA 2000
Biographical article published in TNT Magazine - 2000
Working and performing with theatrical troupe - Medieval Mayhem - 2000
Performing at MU concerts in Reading - 2001
Performed "Sound as a Pound" outside Royal Courts of Justice - 2002 - ITN broadcast
Performed "Last Legion" at Utopia Con, Holland - 2002
Visit to Beijing, China to study Chinese language - 2003
Record songs in Chinese for Chinese Television - Shijiazhuang Dianshitai - 2003
Perform songs in Chinese at Festival event - 2003
Gave Songwriter masterclass at Utopia Con, Holland - 2003
Visit to Beijing, China to study Chinese language - 2004
Grant of Arms by College of Arms - 2004
Released an EPCD of Chinese songs - 999 Roses - 2004
Released CD album - For Honour - 2004
Visit to Beijing, China to study Chinese language - 2005
Performance at Swaines’s Green English Fayre - 2005
Premier performance of 'Bridge of Swallows' at The Lush, Wodaokou, Haidian Qu, Beijing - 2009.
Performed '999 Roses' and 'Bridge of Swallows' with rock group Mace at the China 60 celebration in London - 2009.


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